Feed-cooker.



PATENTED JULY 3, 1906.

W. FETZ ER. FEED COOKER. APPLICATION FILED 0GT.23, 1905.

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No. 825,118. PATENTED JULY 3, 1906.

W. FETZER.

FEED COOKER. APPLICATION FILED 00T.23, 1905.

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IVILLIAM FETZER, OF MIDDLETOVVN, OHIO.

FEED-COOKER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 3, 1906.

Application filed October 23, 1905. Serial No. 284,094.

To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM FETZER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Middletown, in the county of Butler and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in FeedCookers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawmgs.

This invention relates to improvements in feed-cookers, and has for its object the provision of a device of this character the chief characteristics of which are its compactness, lightness, and portability.

A convenient embodiment of the invention embraces supporting means including a shiftable roller adapted in one position to be free to revolve to facilitate transportation of the device, while in another position it will cooperate with a portion of the structure, whereby it is held from rotation and will I serve the function of a supporting leg or foot.

A device possessing all of the foregoing characteristics is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, and the same, as well as other details in the construc tion and arrangement of the several parts, will be apparent upon an inspection of said drawings in connection with the detailed description hereinafter contained.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of the device, parts being broken away, showing the supporting-wheels in a position free to revolve to permit the transportation of the device from place to place. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing supporting-wheels in peripheral contact with a part of the bottom of the device, whereby their rotation is frictionally retarded or prevented, so that they act as substantially stationary feet or legs. Fig. 3 is an end view looking in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the lower section as shown in Fig. 2, the upper or tank portion being removed, and Fig. 5 is a detailed view of a supporting rack or frame.

Referring more specifically to the drawings, in which like reference characters refer to corresponding parts in the several views, A designates the lower section, and B the upper section, having a removable interfitting engagement with the lower section, as indicated at C, Fig. 1, whereby the upper section may be detached at will and the whole of the lower section exposed for cleaning or repair purposes, as indicated in Fig. 4.

The upper section B may serve as a tank, oven, or heater for any purpose found desirable, for while I have termed the device sought to be protected hereby as a feedcooker it is obvious that the same will be found susceptible of various other usesfor instance, as a hog-scalder, a heater for tobacco-sheds, a boiler for laundry, a boiler for sap, and many other farm purposes. The material of which this particular section is formed and upon which there is comparatively little strain when in use is conveniently relatively light sheet-iron. The lower section A comprises a fire-chamber D, having a fuel-opening d at the front of the device adapted to be closed by the usual door (1, and beneath this fire-chamber there is an ash-pit E, provided with a covered opening a at the end of the device, Fig. 3, through which the ashes may be withdrawn. The bottom of the section A beneath the ash-pit just referred to is fiat, whereby the same may rest steadily upon the ground when the device is in use, this end of the device, as will be apparent, constituting one of the supportinglegs for the rest of the structure.

In direct communication with the upper portion of the fire-chamber I provide a conducting-chamber for the products of combustion, through which said products of combustion may pass in their travel to an exitflue F, to be presently again referred to, around beneath substantially the whole of the bottom of the upper section B to impart their heating influence thereto. This conducting-chamber is designated at G and is comparatively shallow to afford an open space H therebelow for a purpose to be soon pointed out. To secure the greatest benefit from the heat-bearing products of combustion, it is of course desirable that they shall remain in contact With the bottom of the upper section or receptacle B for as long a period as possible prior to their exit by way of the flue F, and I therefore provide a deflecting-plate or baffle I, disposed longitudinally and approximately centrally of the conduct* ing-chamber, connecting at one end, as at i, with the rear wall of the lower section and terminating at its opposite end at a point short of the adjacent end wall of the section A, whereby two channels J and J are formed, through the first of which the products of combustion pass from the fire-chamber to the far end of the conducting chamber and thence around the end of the baffle and back through the other channel toward the fireot to an opening f, leading therefrom into El e flue F, all of which will be obvious from J J represent a pair of wheels designed to perform the dual function of antifrictionbearings, upon which the device maybe transported, and rigid relatively stationary bearings, upon which the device may rest when in use. To enable such use thereof, the wheels are carried by arms or links K, connected at one end to the axle of the wheels and pivoted at the other end to the upper ortion of the front and rear walls of the ower section. These links, and incidentally the wheels carried thereby, are free to be swung longitudi nally of the device to either the position indicated in Fig. 1 or that indicated in Fig. 2.

The former is the position which the wheels occupy when the device is tobe moved, and it is to be noted that said wheels are free from engagement with the bottom of the device owing to their being held away therefrom by the abutment of the links with stops L, rigidly secured to and projecting outwardly from the front and rear walls of the lower section; but when the links and wheels are swung away from the position just referred to the periphery of the wheels come into engagement with the bottom of the device, and the friction between the two will effectually prevent or so retard the rotation of the wheels that they will serve as supporting-feet for that end of the device opposite to that which contains the fire-chamber. The front, rear, and end walls of the section A, as also the wall a of the fire-chamber, are formed of gray foundry-iron, while the bottom of this section and the partition I are formed of sheet metal, whereby the structure is strong, durable, and comparatively light.

When the device is used as ahog-scalder, for instance, it is desirable that some means be afforded to prevent contact of the hog with the bottom of the boiler-section, and for this purpose I provide a frame or rack M, Fig. 5, composed of a number of cross-pieces m m, formed to fit within and rest upon the bottom of the boiler-section (see dotted lines, Fig. 1) and adapted to support the hog or other object away from contact with said bottom.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, and desired to be secured 5 5 by Letters Patent, iss 1. A device of the character described,

having a base-section containing a fire-chamber adapted to rest upon the ground and having an extension projecting from the upper portion of the fire-chamber, having a ho 0w interior constituting a conducting-chamber for the products of combustion from the firechamber, and a supporting-wheel arranged in the space. beneath the extension of the base-section, in combination with means for movably supporting said wheel whereby it may be swung from a position out of engagement with the bottom of the extension into a position in peripheral engagement therewith, for the purpose described.

2. A device of the character described, having a base-section containing a fire-chamber adapted to rest upon the ground and having an extension projecting from the upper portion of the fire-chamber, having a hol ow interior constituting a conducting-chamber for the products of combustion from the firechamber, and a supporting-wheel arranged in the space beneath the extension of the base-section, in combination with means for movably supporting said wheel whereby it may be swung from a position out of engagement with the bottom of the extension into a position in peripheral engagement therewith, including a pivoted link carrying the wheel and a stop adapted in one position to coact to hold the wheel away from engagement with said bottom of the extension.

3. In combination with a device of the.

character described, supporting means therefor including a shiftably mounted roller adapted in one position to be free to revolve to facilitate transportation of the device while in another position it will cooperate with a portion of the structure and be held grom rotation to serve as a supporting leg or oot.

4. In combination with a device of the character described, supporting means therefor including a shiftably-mounted roller adapted in one position to be free to revolve to facilitate transportation of the device while in another position it will peripherally engage with a portion of the structure and be held from rotation to serve as a supporting leg or foot.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM FETZER Witnesses:

G. A. SU LIVAN, F. W. CLIsE. 

